Miyamoto to be inducted as American Academy of Nursing fellow
Sheridan Miyamoto, assistant professor of nursing and principal investigator of the SAFE-T Center, will be inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN). Miyamoto will be formally recognized during the academy’s annual conference held virtually Oct. 29-31.
Fellowship in the academy…
Mining Twitter data may help National Parks staff gather feedback faster
The National Park system has been referred to as one of America’s national treasures. A team of Penn State researchers in the department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Management and the Social Science Research Institute, report that mining tweets about the park may open up a rich vein of…
Parent-child separations focus of virtual symposium
The circumstances of parent-child separation due to parental incarceration, migration and deportation, and military deployment will be the focus of Penn State’s 28th annual Symposium on Family Issues, being held virtually Oct. 26 to 27.
“Causes and Consequences of Parent-Child Separations: Pathways…
Pérez-Edgar named SSRI associate director
Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) recently named Koraly Pérez-Edgar, McCourtney Professor of child studies and professor of psychology, as an associate director of the institute.
Pérez-Edgar, a developmental neuroscientist whose research focuses on child temperament and…
Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on increasing privacy risks
Penn State researchers have observed that social media users who may be looking for ways to stay close during isolation appear to be sharing more personal information online. This is a concern because we know that personal information shared voluntarily through social media is vulnerable to…
Mexico-U.S border to be discussed Sept. 17 during De Jong Lecture
"The New Reality at the Mexico-U.S. Border" will be presented by Doug Massey at Penn State's virtual 15th annual De Jong Lecture in Social Demography at 9 a.m. Sept. 17.
Massey is director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. Discussants include Amy Hsin, associate…
Molecular stress indicator not observed in survivors of child sexual abuse
Researchers and medical experts have long known that child sexual abuse has profoundly negative effects on the health of survivors; however, an international team of researchers was not able to find a link between the abuse and telomere length, considered an indicator of cellular aging and health.…
Penn State to retire Box service in 2021
Penn State will retire Box as a cloud storage and collaboration service and migrate users’ files to comparable Microsoft Office 365 services -- such as OneDrive and SharePoint -- by June 2021.
Several factors contributed to the decision, including the planned increase in the cost of the Box…
QuantDev consulting available
The Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core’s team of faculty and resident consultants is affiliated with Penn State’s Department of Human Development and Family Studies and SSRI. QuantDev provides statistical and methodological consulting to faculty and students on behavioral and…
Mood of the Nation Poll offers a snapshot of life during pandemic's early phase
As COVID-19 swept across the country this spring, most Americans reported feeling fearful of at least one daily activity that they did not think twice about before the pandemic, according to findings from the latest McCourtney Institute for Democracy Mood of the Nation Poll.
The poll, conducted…
MASC initiative helps unite Penn State in the COVID-19 fight
An interdisciplinary team of almost 400 Penn Staters are helping healthcare workers at Penn State Health and local hospitals fight COVID-19 through the Manufacturing And Sterilization for COVID-19 (MASC) initiative, and the story behind it highlights the power of partnership at Penn State to help…
Parental warmth on high-conflict days helps teens to feel loved
While parent-teen conflict is inevitable, parents expressing warmth and support on high-conflict days can bolster how much their teen feels loved, according to a study conducted by Gregory Fosco, Penn State associate professor of human development and family studies and associate director of the…
Morgan and team's research featured in report, podcast
A new APM Reports and podcast focuses on how false assumptions about what it takes to be a skilled reader has created deep inequalities among U.S. children, putting many on a difficult path in life. Multiple studies conducted by CEDR Director and PRI affiliate Paul Morgan and his research team are…
Penn State Microbiome Center and GALT enter collaboration to advance research
The Penn State Microbiome Center and General Automation Lab Technologies (GALT) announced their collaboration to advance plant pathology, environmental microbiology and human gut microbiome studies.
As part of this collaboration, GALT will support four research projects that will use the company’s…
Impacts of the coronavirus on non-COVID related medical care
Much of the attention surrounding COVID-19 has focused on the incidence, the risk factors, and the medical needs of COVID-19 patients as well as the profound economic impact of the pandemic. However, an increasing area of emphasis is the profound effect the pandemic has had on non-COVID related…
New online event series brings virtual conversations to the Penn State community
A new virtual event series launched earlier this year by the College of Health and Human Development has become a hub of activity for interactive engagement among friends and alumni of the Penn State community. The “HHD On Location: Home Edition” events, which feature discussions between an…
Impacts of the coronavirus on economic recovery in Pennsylvania
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound affect on Pennsylvania’s economy, in a way that has no recent historical comparison, with potentially long-lasting effects. In this article, Göktuğ Morçöl, Penn State professor of public policy and administration in the School of Public Affairs, discusses…
Climate change-influenced refugee crisis may lead to long-term settlement issues
While many models suggest that climate change will prompt a substantial number of people to leave their homes, not all research so clearly finds this is the case. Investigating cases where computer models seemed to indicate only limited impacts of climate change on people leaving rural areas, a…
Faculty helping develop online course on coronavirus science for K-12 schools
During the COVID-19 outbreak, faculty at Penn State’s Center for Science and the Schools are helping to create a course to help engage middle and high school students in multiple explorations to help them better understand the science behind the pandemic and learn how scientists create new…
PRC funding available for graduate student research related to anti-racism
The Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center (PRC) announced today a call for proposals for funding Penn State graduate student research that focuses on health and challenges faced by diverse and oppressed populations, with preference given to projects that develop or adapt an intervention to…
Why Social Science? - Because It Can Become a Tool to Dismantle White Supremacy
By Kenneth Prewitt, PhD, President, American Academy of Political and Social Science and Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs, Columbia University
The 1966 Coleman Report was our nation’s first big social science project. It gathered and analyzed data from 600,000 students, 60,000 teachers and 4…
Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on restaurant and food service businesses
Restaurants and foodservice businesses were some of the first economic activities severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Dining in restaurants virtually stopped overnight in cities and states as social distancing guidelines took effect. A Penn State research team has been working to develop…
Uncovering racial disparities in mortgage markets
Discrimination can take many forms, and a Penn State researcher along with his coauthors are finding new ways to uncover it.
Brent Ambrose, Jason and Julie Borrelli Faculty Chair in Real Estate in the Smeal College of Business at Penn State and director of the Penn State Institute for Real Estate…
Social Science Research Institute Director Susan McHale to step down; Search for next SSRI director to commence
The Office of the Senior Vice President for Research announced on July 24 that Susan McHale will step down as the director of the Social Science Research Institute. She will continue to head the institute while a search for the next director is conducted.
McHale has served as the SSRI director…
Students use engagement grants to benefit communities in need
This summer 50 students received the Student Engagement Network’s (SEN) Remote Innovation Grants, and many of them are using those grants as a means to improve their communities and the lives of others.
In April, SEN announced it would offer $2,000 grants to students from any campus or academic…